Wetherby WW2 prison camp will not be demolished for housing

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Council turns down application for a Wetherby camp that was used to house Italian prisoners of war.

The former "Camp 53" near Wetherby housed Italian prisoners of war captured during the Allies' campaign in North Africa in 1941.

However, councillors refused the proposal and said that housing would damage the "historic social narrative" of the camp. At a meeting on 25 June which saw the application rejected, the "encroachment" into open countryside by residential development was also cited as a reason for refusal, according to theKirk Deighton was a "satellite" camp associated with the larger Scriven Hall internment centre nearby.

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